Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (16 June 1762 – 24 August 1844) was an itinerant Italian painter of frescoes, landscapes, vedute, capriccios and some religious works.

Biography He was born in Palmanova. When he was still a boy, his family moved to Brescia, where he saw the works of Girolamo Romani and decided to become a painter. Later, his family moved again, to Venice, where he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and worked with Costantino Cedini. While there, he became friends with the architect Gian Antonio Selva, and went with him to Ferrara in 1787 to help decorate the Palazzo Bottoni.

Shortly after, he was in Padua, working as a set designer for the Obizzi family and, in 1790, was commissioned to do decorations for the Castello del Catajo. the Princeton University Art Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Clark Art Institute, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Norton Simon Museum, the Blanton Museum of Art, and the British Museum.

Selected paintings